[Victory-Stadium]

Plans for a new stadium- amplitheater combination in Roanoke are already in motion.
The new facility is designed to replace an aging Victory Stadium.
But it's the history of the stadium one group wants to preserve.
Jennifer Wishon reports.
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[SOT]
[IN Q=]
[SUPER=03-Roanoke; :06]
[SUPER=01-Brian Wishneff/Citizens for a Sensible Stadium Decision; ::14 QUICK!!! ]
[SUPER=01-Darlene Burcham/Roanoke City Manager; :35 ]
[SUPER=@Jennifer2; 1:45 ]
[RUNS=1:53]
[OUT Q=JW, News 7, Roanoke]
((((NATS OF PRESS CONFERENCE))
They call themselves Citizens for a Sensible Stadium Decision.
And they're fighting to keep the city from replacing a landmark.
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[SOT 18:51:14]
[IN Q=There's absolutely]
((BRIAN WISHNEFF/CITIZENS FOR A SENSIBLE STADIUM DECISION: THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG WITH THE STADIUM OTHER THAN IT'S BEEN NEGLIECTED FOR 60 YEARS.))
[RUNS05]
[OUT Q=for 60 years]
During the stadium's heyday Virginia Tech and VMI duked it out each year on the field.
And high school football games drew larger crowds.
But now the city has moved to a different trend in outdoor entertainment.
(///// SOT /////)
[SOT 25:43:11]
[IN Q=I personally encouraged]
((DARLENE BURCHAM/ROANOKE CITY MANAGER: I PERSONALLY ENCOURAGED THE COUNCIL TO LOOK TO A MULTIPURPOSE FACILITY BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT WAS NOT PRACTICAL TO SPEND TEN TO TWELVE TO FOURTEEN MILLION DOLLARS ON A HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL STADIUM ALONE.))
[RUNS14]
[OUT Q=football stadium alone]
This area on the corner of Orange Avenue and Williamson Road will be the home of the new facility.
[SOT 17:27:00]
[IN Q=We believe that is is]
((BRIAN WISHNEFF/CITIZENS FOR A SENSIBLE STADIUM DECISION: WE BELIEVE THAT IT IS A MAJOR MAJOR MISTAKE TO BUILD THE NEW FACILITY WHERE IT IS. IT'S IN A POOR LOCATION ALONG THE INTERSTATE, TRAFFIC TO IT IS TERRIBLE. THERE'S LITTLE TO NO ONSIGHT PARKING.))
[RUNS14]
[OUT Q=little to no onsight]
Wishneff says it'll cost twice as much to build a new facility as it would to spruce up Victory Stadium.
He notes flooding won't be an issue once the city implements its flood reduction project, and the old stadium's location is more attractive.
But city leaders say all those concerns have been considered time and time again.
And the new stadium answers a city goal to become a regional entertainment capital and retain young people in the area.
(///// SOT /////)
[SOT 28:28:08]
[IN Q=We talked to promoters]
((DARLENE BURCHAM/ROANOKE CITY MANAGER: WE TALKED TO PROMOTERS ABOUT IT AND THEY WERE VERY ENCOURAGING THAT WE COULD PROBABLY PUT ON HALF A DOZEN TO MAYBE TEN EVENTS A YEAR THAT WERE AMPLITHEATER ORIENTED.))
[RUNS11]
[OUT Q=amplitheater oriented]
Stadium activists say it was young people that made the stadium triumphant in the past and a little touching up could make it victorious in the future.
Jennifer Wishon, News 7, Roanoke.))

[Festival]

This year's kickoff concert for Festival in the Park won't be at Victory Stadium.
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[VO-NAT - :22]
[SUPER=03-Roanoke;]
Event organizers moved the concert to the Roanoke Civic Center because of concerns about rain and the potential for flooding.
That announcement sent crews at the Civic Center scrambling to put the stage together, and prepare the floor for thousands of fans.
However, even with the change, beer sales WILL be allowed at the Civic Center for this concert, but with a few restrictions.
(//////SOT/////)
[SOT - 13:19]
[INQ=We will have to...]
((STU ISRAEL/FESTIVAL IN THE PARK; WE WILL HAVE TO KEEP SOME OF THE HOUSE LIGHTS ON, THAT'S AN ABC REGULATION, SO THEY CAN CHECK ID'S OR LOOK FOR UNDERAGE DRINKING. AND THAT'S AN ISSUE.))
[SUPER=01-Stu Israel/Festival in the Park;]
[RUNS=8]
[OUTQ=and that's an issue.]
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[VO-NAT - :12+]
Only 10-thousand 500 buttons will be sold before the concert, and you can only buy them at the Roanoke Civic Center.
All other activities are scheduled to stay at their original locations.
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[Taxes]

[ANCHOR=JEan]
[NEWSCAST=11]
[WRITER=jja]
[TAPE#=]
[GRAPHIC=None]

Millions of Americans could get a tax refund by the end of the summer.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Washington, DC;]

President Bush is happy about that.
Though lawmakers gave him less than half of what he'd originally asked for, Mr. Bush says the tax cut package is enough to help jump start the economy.
The package increases the tax break for married couples and raises the child tax credit to one thousand dollars.
Number crunchers say a family of four with an annual income of 63 thousand dollars can expect to see their taxes cut just over one thousand dollars.
One analyst says almost everyone would get a break expect for one kind of taxpayer.
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[SOT 1:14 ]
((MARK GARAY/DELOITTE & TOUCHE ACCOUNTANT: CERTAINLY IF YOU ARE SINGLE WITH NO KIDS AND PEOPLE WITH NO INVESTMENT INCOME, REALLY DON'T GET AS BIG A BANG FOR THE BUCK HERE.))
[SUPER=01-Mark Garay/Deloitte & Touche Accountant;]
[RUNS=10]
[OUT Q=FOR THE BUCK HERE.]
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[ANCHOR=Jean]
[SS=None]

For example a single person with no children making 41 thousand dollars a year will get only a 200 dollar tax break.
House and Senate lawmakers are still wrestling over details, but if the measure is passed quickly Republicans say workers would see some adjustments in their paychecks by July and millions of Americans would get refund checks of 400 dollars per child by the end of the summer.

[Community-Colleges]

While taxes may be going down, the cost of attending Virginia's community colleges is getting more expensive.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Roanoke/File Tape]

Today the State Board for Community Colleges voted to increase tuition nearly seven dollars per credit hour.
This fall, in-state students will pay 59-dollars and 60-cents per credit hour.
About 94 percent of the state's community college students are Virginians.
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[Tech-SARS]

[ANCHOR=Jean]
[NEWSCAST=11pm]
[WRITER=myr]
[TAPE#=03-13 TC59:46]
[GRAPHIC=SARS]
Some Chinese students studying in Southwest Virginia are joining the fight against SARS in their country.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Blacksburg;]
The Virginia Tech Association of Chinese Students and Scholars is now collecting donations to send to China, in an effort to find a cure for the disease.
(///// SOT /////)
[SOT 323]
[IN Q=the only thing]
((FEIMING BAI/ACSS: THE ONLY THING THAT I THINK THAT WE CAN DO IS CALL DONATIONS AND LET MANY OF OUR FRIENDS, AMERICAN FRIENDS, CHINESE FRIENDS, AND ALL OUR COUNTRY FRIENDS KNOW WHAT WE ARE DOING. HELP OUR COUNTRY, HELP OUR FRIENDS IN CHINA.))
[SUPER=01-Feiming Bai/Association of Chinese Students & Scholars;]
[RUNS=19]
[OUT Q=friends in china.]
(------------)
[VO-NAT]

The students say they are particularly concerned over the threat of SARS in rural China, where most of the people can not afford proper medical care.
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[ANCHOR=Jean]
[GRAPHIC=HOLD]
Drop off sites for donations will be set up around campus next week.

[Twins]

[ANCHOR=Jean]
[NEWSCAST=11]
[WRITER=jja]
[TAPE#=]
[GRAPHIC=None]

You probably remember the Guatemalan twins formerly joined at the skull.
The twins are back in the United States tonight- they returned for an emergency medical procedure.
Manuel Galleugs was there when the twins arrived back on American soil.
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[SOT 19:51:29]
[IN Q=]
[SUPER=03-Los Angeles, CA; :00]
[SUPER=01-Dr. Ludwig Ovalle/Guatemalan Pediatrician; :37]
[SUPER=@Gallegus2; 1:01]
[RUNS=1:15]
[OUT Q=CBS News, Los Angeles.]
((THEY ARE WELL ENOUGH TO TRAVEL BACK TO THE U.S. BUT FORMER CONJOINED TWINS MARIA DE JESUS AND MARIA DE TERESA ARE BOTH SUFFERING FROM SERIOUS COMPLICATIONS TO THEIR RECOVERY.
SO WITH A DONATED PRIVATE JET STANDING BY IN GUATEMALA, THEIR MOTHER AND FATHER GAVE THEM A TEARFUL GOODBYE THEY WERE FLOWN BACK TO LOS ANGELES TO MATTEL CHILDRENS HOSPITAL.
ON WEDNESDAY, MARIA DE JESUS BEGAN HAVING CONVULSIONS AND A FEVER. AND HER SISTER NEEDS A VALVE IN HER HEAD REPLACED TO RELIEVE PRESSURE. HER BODY IS REJECTING THE INFECTED ONE THAT WAS ALREADY SURGICALLY PUT IN PLACE.
LUDWIG OVALLE, GUATEMALAN PEDIATRICIAN
Maria Teresa is stable, the infections have been controlled, and the seizures that she had are controlled -and the other complications that she had are also controlled..
BORN JOINED AT THE HEAD IN JULY OF 2001, IN A SMALL VILLAGE IN GUATEMALA, THE GIRLS DREW THE ATTENTION OF HUMANITARIAN GROUPS.
LAST AUGUST IN A 23 HOUR OPERATION THE GIRLS WERE SEPARATED.
GENERALLY DOCTORS SAY THEIR RECOVERY HAS BEEN REMARKABLE.
THEY WERE ALREADY SCHEDULED TO RETURN TO CHILDRENS HOSPITAL IN A FEW WEEKS FOR A ROUTINE CHECK-UP THE HOSPITAL WILL NOT BE GIVING OUT ANY INFORMATION UNTIL IT GETS WRITTEN APPROVAL FROM THE PARENTS.
MANUEL GALLEGUS, CBS NEWS LOS ANGELES.))

[Milliner]

The little girl who fell dozens of feet down a Roanoke County embankment is being called a "miracle girl."
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[VO-NAT :33]
Tessa Milliner suffered severe head injuries after slipping off a path along the Roanoke River earlier this month.
[SUPER=03-Roanoke Co./May 11;]
She was taken to UVA Medical Center in Charlottesville for treatment.
The nine year old's family had quoted doctors as saying her chances of healing were slim to none.
But now, her mother, Shannon Mabry (MAY-bree), says Tessa has been talking, laughing, playing and even walking with help.
Tessa is back in intensive care after undergoing her second surgery today.
But Mabry says doctors are calling Tessa's progress so far "unbelievable."
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[Tease1]
[ANCHOR=Jean]
[WRITER=dse]
[NEWSCAST=11p]
[SS=None]

Was yesterday's explosion at Yale University a birthday present to the Unabomber?
More on that when News 7 returns.
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[VO-NAT]

Plus these high schoolers are being hailed as heroes.
Find out how they helped solve a Roanoke County bank robbery next.
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[Sports-preview]

[Bank-Robbery]

[ANCHOR=Jean]
[NEWSCAST=11 p.m.]
[WRITER=syo]
[TAPE#=503-02]
[GRAPHIC=None]
Roanoke County Police say the quick thinking high school students helped them capture a bank robbery suspect.
(------------)
[VO-NAT :19]
[SUPER=03-Roanoke Co.;]
Kelly Woodford and David Hoops stopped off at the Bank of Botetourt on Peter's Creek Road on the way to a doctor's appointment shortly after ten this morning.
When a teller told them the bank had just been robbed and pointed out the suspect's car, the Northside High School students say they raced off in pursuit.
(///// SOT at :19 ////)
[SOT 6:10-6:23]
[IN Q=It was scary though...]
((KELLY WOODFORD/CHASED SUSPECT : IT WAS, IT WAS SCARY THOUGH, 'CAUSE I WAS SITTING THERE, DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD THINKING HE'S GONNA TURN AROUND AND SHOOT CAUSE HE'S A BANK ROBBER BUT I MEAN THEY DIDN'T HAVE THE LICESE AND I WAS THE ONLY PERSON WHO COULD GET OUT AND GET IT.))
[SUPER=01-Kelly Woodford/Chased Suspect;]
[RUNS=:13]
[OUT Q=could get out and get it.]
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[VO-NAT :14]
The suspect got away with an undisclosed amount of cash but was pulled over and arrested within the hour.
No one was injured.
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[ANCHOR=Jean]
[GRAPHIC=None]
The F-B-I says 35-year old Jerome Brown of Queens is being held on a federal warrant for four bank robberies in New York.
He has yet to be charged with today's robbery which was the fifth in the Roanoke area in the past month.

[Tornberg]

[ANCHOR=Jean]
[NEWSCAST=11pm]
[WRITER=myr]
[TAPE#=]
[GRAPHIC=None]
A Christiansburg man is being held in Canada on child pornography charges.
33-year-old Aaron Tornberg was arrested and charged with two counts of child pornography, at the Queenston Bridge border crossing near Niagara Falls.
Authorities say they found a computer in Tornberg's vehicle that had images of children having sex.
Christiansburg police searched Tornberg's home yesterday, where officers say they found more photos and pornographic magazines.
Tornberg currently has a website where he offers computer lessons over the Internet.

[Yale-Explosion]

[ANCHOR=Jean]
[NEWSCAST=11]
[WRITER=jja]
[TAPE#=]
[GRAPHIC=Explosion]

A possible break in the Yale Law school bombing investigation.
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[VO-NAT 18.5]
[SUPER=03-New Haven, CT;]

Police showed students a sketch of a man in his 20's or 30's and now authorities say they now know who he is, but are not calling him a suspect.
A swarm of investigators are literally on their hands and knees searching for clues.
So far testing has not show any evidence of any chemical or biological agents.
(///// SOT /////)
[SOT]
((LT. COL EDWARD LYNCH/CT STATE POLICE: WE HAVE EVIDENCE TECHNICIANS AND THEY'RE GOING THROUGH EVERY BIT OF THE DEBRIS, IF THERE'S PART OF A DEVICE THERE, WE'LL FIND IT.))
[SUPER=01-Lt. Col Edward Lynch/CT State Police; ]
[RUNS=05]
[OUT Q=WE'LL FIND IT.]
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[VO-NAT 11]

A bomb exploded on the first floor of the Sterling law building late yesterday afternoon.
No one was hurt, but there was structural damage in two law school rooms.
(///// SOT /////)
[SOT]
((FRANCISCO ORTIZ/NEW HAVEN, CT POLICE CHIEF; WE LITERALLY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT KIND OF DEVICE WAS UTILIZED HERE.))
[SUPER=01-Francisco Ortiz/New Haven, CT Police Chief;]
[RUNS=03]
[OUT Q=WAS UTILIZED HERE.]
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[VO-NAT 16 plus pad]

Investigators are checking to see if there is anything symbolic about the blast.
May 22nd is the birthday of Ted Kaczynski, known as the unabomber.
It was 1993 that a Yale professor was seriously hurt when a mail bomb mailed by Kaczynski exploded in his office.
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[Iraq-Sanctions]

The United Nations has agreed to a U-S led administration of Iraq.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-New York, NY]
The vote, 14 to nothing, also lifts economic santions against the country.
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[SOT:30]
[IN Q=AFTER MORE THAN ]
((JOHN NEGROPONTE /U.S. AMBASSADOR TO U.N./AFTER MORE THAN A DECADE OF BEING FROZEN OUT OF THE WORLD ECONOMY, IT IS TIME FOR THE IRAQI PEOPLE TO BENEFIT FROM THE NATURAL RESOURCES))
[SUPER=01-John Negroponte /U. S. Ambassador to the U. N.]
[RUNS=10]
[OUT Q=THE NATURAL RESOURCES]
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[VO-NAT]
That resource is oil, with 8 million barrels ready for immediate shipment, exports should resume quickly.
The resolution gives immediate control of Iraq's oil industry to the U-S and it's allies.
The U-S and Great Britain also keep control of the economy and political processes.
Some concessions had to be made though... the United Nations limited role will include appointing someone to oversee relief and reconstruction efforts.
(///// SOT /////)
[SOT 1:11]
[IN Q=WE BELIEVE THAT IT NOW ]
((JEAN-MARC DE LA SABLIERE/FRENCH AMBASSADOR-WE BELIEVE THAT IT NOW PROVIDES A CREDIBLE FRAMEWORK WITHIN WHICH THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY WILL BE ABLE TO LEND SUPPORT TO THE IRAQI PEOPLE))
[SUPER=10-Jean-Marc de la Sabliere/French U. N. Ambassador/Voice of Translator]
[RUNS=12]
[OUT Q=THE IRAQI PEOPLE]
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[VO-NAT]
Syria criticized the resolution and did not show up for the vote.
The resolution is up for renewal in one year.
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[Earthquake-Update]

[ANCHOR=Jean]
[NEWSCAST=5]
[WRITER=jja]
[TAPE#=]
[GRAPHIC=None]

A glimmer of good news among the destruction in Algeria.
(------------)
[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Algiers, Algeria;]

A report of a survivor amid more than one thousand dead after an earthquake there.
French radio is reporting that rescuers have saved a young woman found in the rubble.
The number of dead has rapidly topped one thousand. More than 5-thousand are hurt.
The quake last night was centered 40 miles east of Algiers.
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[Tease2]
[ANCHOR=Jean]
[WRITER=dse]
[NEWSCAST=11]
[SS=None]

New training requirments may be a prescription for trouble in the pharmacy industry.
FInd out why next.
(----------------)
[VO-NAT]

And three year olds can bring home all kinds of things, even a giant python.
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[Commercial]

[Pharmacist-Shortage]

[ANCHOR=Jean]
[NEWSCAST=11]
[WRITER=khu]
[TAPE#=03-09 TC1:49:32]
[GRAPHIC=None]
When your pharmacist gets sick- -these days, there may not be anybody to fill in for him.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Botetourt Co.]
In some cases the chain stores- -such as C-V-S- -have been relying on independent pharmacists like Tim Lucas to pick up the slack.
At least twice in the past week he's been asked to help out when C-V-S couldn't fill a regular shift.
Lucas attributes the shortage to several factors... chief among them: the fact that the pharmacy degree is now a six-year program, requiring a DOCTOR of pharmacy.
The growing demand for pharmacists is affecting salaries.
(///// SOT /////)
[SOT 13:24:15]
[IN Q=You know an average]
((TIM LUCAS/PHARMACIST; YOU KNOW AN AVERAGE PHARMACIST THESE DAYS IS TYPICALLY MAKING $80-90,000.))
[SUPER=01-Tim Lucas/Pharmacist; ]
[RUNS=:06]
[OUT Q=90,000]
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[VO-NAT]
In some areas, there are signing bonuses and relocation allowances on top of that.
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[Python]

[ANCHOR=jean]
[NEWSCAST=11]
[WRITER=dgr]
[TAPE#=]
[GRAPHIC=None]

Here is a whole new meaning for "man's best friend."
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Sit Tbou, Cambodia]
This three year old Cambodian boy and this female python have become friends.
The pair first met when the boy was three months old, but it wasn't until the boy learned to crawl that they became pals.
Most Cambodians believe that snakes are lucky, so the boy's mother has kept the snake around.
The relationship has prompted many locals to believe the boy was the son of a dragon in a past life.
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The Wahoos warmed up knowing State had taken 2 of 3 from them this season.
In the bottom of the third, with two outs and two on, the Pack's Jeremy Dutton says see ya later to this pitch, this
[SUPER=34-Virginia/6/N.C. State/10;]shot goes over the right field wall, and N.C. State goes up 3-zip.

To the top of the fourth, bases loaded, Michael Rogers walks in UVa's Scott Head, 3-1 State and the pack wins 10-6.
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[S-Nadeau]

Jerry Nadeau has regained consciousness and is speaking again. In fact he has been eating pizza for meals.
(------------)
[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Richmond/May 2; :00]

This is amazing considering the horrific crash nearly three weeks ago in practice at Richmond where the 32 year old driver was critically injured May second. Nadeau sustained head, lung, rib and shoulder injuries and is having physical rehab and speech therapy.
(------------)

[S-Cedric]

Friday Football Extra Player of the Week and William Campbell running back Cedric Peerman will play football at UVa.
(------------)
[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Harrisonburg/Group A Division I State Championship; :0]

Peerman, who rushed for seven touchdowns in the Generals state championship win this season, has verbally committed to the Wahoos. The running back still has another year of high school but was offered a full ride by UVa head coach Al Groh. Peerman especially liked Groh's no nonsense attitude.
(///// SOT /////)
[SOT]
[IN Q=]
[SUPER=01-Cedric Peerman/Verbally Commits to UVa; :04]
[SUPER=01-Brad Bradley/William Campbell Head Football Coach; :16]
[RUNS=:28]
[OUT Q=....for this community"]
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[S-Annika]

The L-P-G-A's top player posted a 1-over par 71 in the opening round of the Colonial that was marked by uncanny consistency. The first woman player in 58 years to compete in a P-G-A Tour event carded one birdie, two bogies and 15 pars to play herself into contention. Sorenstam showed off her accuracy by missing just one fairway and two greens for the day. She's played herself into position to make the 36 hole cut after tomorrow's round.
(///// SOT /////)
[SOT]
[IN Q=]
[SUPER=01-Annika Sorenstam/First Round 71; :00]
[RUNS=:21]
[OUT Q=.....through this together"]
(-----------------)
[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Corning, NY;]

Annika had her fans both in Texas and elsewhere, including those playing in the LPGA Corning Classic in Corning New York, who watched her play closely.
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[anchor=steve]
[graphic=PGA]

By the way, Rory Sabbatini is at the top of the leaderboard at the Colonial. The South African fired a late day 6-under 64 to grab a one-shot lead.

[Britney]

[ANCHOR=Jean]
[NEWSCAST=11]
[WRITER=jja]
[TAPE#=]
[GRAPHIC=None]

Britney Spears fans are getting Britney gear with just a click of a mouse.
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[VO-NAT 16]
[SUPER=03-New York, NY;]